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A spouse and a house are all we need? : housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle

Rock, Bram de; Kovaleva, Mariia; Potoms, Tom - 2023

To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment … changes in the value of marriage due to a housing price shock have an asymmetric impact on individual welfare both across …

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The Male Marital Wage Differential : Race, Training, and Fixed Effects

Stratton, Leslie S.; Rodgers III, William M. - 2021

Married white men have higher wages and faster wage growth than unmarried white men. Using the NLSY, we examine whether racial differences in intrahousehold specialization and formal training explain married men's faster wage growth, and individual-specific data on cognitive skills, family...

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Is the Male Marriage Premium Due to Selection? : The Effect of Shotgun Weddings on the Return to Marriage

Ginther, Donna K.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2014

-married men. One proposed explanation for this male marriage premium is that men may be selected into marriage on the basis of … hypothesis using a "natural experiment" that may be an exogenous cause of marriage for some men. We compare the estimated … marriage premium between men whose first marriages are followed by a birth within seven months and other married men. Married …

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Male Marital Wage Differentials : Training, Personal Characteristics, and Fixed Effects

Rodgers III, William M.; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we replicate previous estimates of the marital wage differential for white men, extend the analysis to African American men, then explain the within and between race differentials. We first control for formal job training, then for cognitive...

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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

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Immigrants and demography : marriage, divorce, and fertility

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014

the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions …

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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019

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Technology and the changing family : a unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - 2015

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …

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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...

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